Sooo...is it all part of a bigger plan? It's a bit too sudden if you ask me. Just a slap in the face without warning.

I get that the thread became really long and off-topic, especially since the last few hundred pages. But we used to have at least one threat going about Shepard's possible indoctrination, and with that at leat one threat that contained an extensive amount of information for every user to see. Everyone could spot it instantly.

Now it got locked into a shed somewhere far out in the field.

And looking at all the lockdowns of more general threats on indoctrination it looks like BW doesn't want people to actively participate on the discussions. Since I don't think that they've all turned into nazis I guess there's a bigger picture there somewhere. Especially since it all came right in the beginning of the year we're all hope for a big reveal.

Maybe Chris had the choice between closing down the thread, coming back from his vacation, or reading through the entire thing, start to finish, looking for violations... ;P

Heh, no, but however farfetched it is, I do carry a small hope that they are /trying/ to keep a low profile about the matter, in anticipation of something positive (...and do not trust us to keep anymore quiet than we do now, under any other circumstance).

I hardly feel that the IT thread has been particularly representative of the theory lately and do not think I would have been too keen on seeing new curious people seeking it out, in the state it was when it finished.

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The hopeful, probssibly self-delusional take, would be that, for the sake of impact and to leave the lands fallow and ready, they want it completely off the radar and half-forgotten for a time, before they drop the bomb, so to speak. :P

Yes that is the only explanation that comes to mind, but even this one is retarded. I it comes to mind only because i like the IT and i want it to be true, and choose to see a proof for it in everything.

My belief is that the devs have heard enough of anything ending related. In fact, they already have an epilogue DLC set and it is not IT related. It just so happens the IT thread was the most popular ending thread and that's why they shut it down. They're going to take the easy route here and throw out another shallow, meaningless conclusion that neither invalidates or validates IT. Doing so, they will avoid isolating any group (from buying ME4).

But the genocide of an entire fanbase is a long, slow process. By slowly closing off IT-related threads, they will slowly control the message boards by censoring the backlash and outrage directed towards them. Before we know it, all of our leaders will be removed and their Youtube videos taken down. Already, Sieval commands an army of literalists; mindless husks who cannot think outside of what is presented to them. By the time we will have realized this, the pro-ending/anti-IT crowd will use this moment to prey upon/insult the IT/anti-ending survivors and soon all we know will be destroyed.

Using the very same logic they created, Bioware hopes to preserve the ending by creating an unresolved ending. They will destroy their fanbase to make way for new fanbases.

We are only a few against an invasion fleet of billion$. We do not have the number$ to stall them. One by one, our members will forget and slowly move on.

Those of us left will serve as Vigils to the next great trilogy that passes along. And those of us who do live on to the next cycle will become angry, bitter avatars of revenge.

My bullshit-detector is off the charts. While they kept repeating that this has nothing to do with any DLC announcements and that the next one was still a few miles away, this just came out of nowhere.

And while I get that we've gone very offtopic from time to time, arguing that he should've closed it down earlier makes no sense whatsoever.

I wouldn't even dream of going into speculation mode if I hadn't experienced this amount of bullshit already 1 year ago. But as of now, this is anything but logic. First he defends us, then he kicks into the ghetto.

Yes, people change their minds, but people with responsibility and in certain positions -- and certainly professionals -- should've thought ahead. And I'm not even talking about it being *the* speculation thread on the BSN, and BW explicitly encouraging speculations by a mod dropping by here and then.

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1 - Ending-related content is afoot and we've sussed it out, or at least got close to the answer. To avoid spoiling it, the IT thread is shut down. CP pretends to be a nob to throw us off the scent.

2 - No ending related content is afoot and our discussion has run its course. To avoid off-topicness and bickering the IT thread is shut down. The shutdown is badly handled by CP who is, in fact, a nob.

Reason to be suspicious - discounted ME3 and the relatively cheap trilogy, plus forum controversy generates excitement ahead of mystery DLC release (we know it's big because all the writers are on it and devs are twittering about mysterious and complex game logic).

_________________The black wind blows like you've never seen and your TV screen is filled with snowAnd the naked truth has an unmarked grave between the waves on your radioAnd war is peace and peace is war and less is more and yes is noThey want to tell you this, they want to tell you that, just hold your hat when the black wind blows

Everywhere I go I hear what's going onAnd the more I hear the less I knowEverywhere I go I hear what's going onAnd the more I hear the less I know